2020 Season

George Russell will complete in his second season in the Formula 1 World Championship with Williams Racing.

2019 Formula One World Championship®

Formula One is the pinnacle of motorsport, racing across the world at 21-different circuits. George Russell will be competing in his maiden season of 'Grand Prix' racing, after winning back-to-back titles in FIA Formula 2 and the GP3 Series.

The championship is due to be contested over a number of Grands Prix held in different countries throughout the world. Drivers and teams are scheduled to compete for the titles of World Drivers' Champion and World Constructors' Champion respectively. The 2019 championship is also scheduled to see the running of the 1000th World Championship race, which is scheduled to be hosted in China.

Championship Format

A race weekend is composed of one practice session of forty-five minutes and one half hour qualifying session, followed by two races.

The qualifying session is a straight fight for fastest laptime, and determines the order of the grid for the Feature Race. Four points are awarded for pole position.

The 'Feature Race' consists of a race that is 75% the length of a Formula 1 Grand Prix - which also requires a mandatory pitstop to change tyres, preparing the drivers for the same scenarios they would experience upon graduating to F1.The top ten drivers score points (25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1) with two points being awarded to the driver who set the fastest lap of the race.

Race two of the weekend is the 'Sprint Race', a shorter race with no mandatory pitstops - which runs usually in the morning before the Formula One Grand Prix.The top eight finishers in the Sprint Race score points (15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1), and the driver who sets the fastest lap scores two points.

Championship

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Season Stats

Races:

24

Podiums:

12

Wins:

7

Points:

287

Pole Positions:

6

Fastest Laps:

6

Estoril

Qualifying

Race One

Race Two

Next Event

Yas Marina

2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

1 December, 2019

Qualifying

Race One

Race Two

Melbourne

2019 Australian Grand Prix

17 March, 2019

Jerez is unique in being the only circuit on the GP3 Series Calendar which is not run as a support event to the Formula One World Championship. This event is the second circuit hosted in Spain and one that all the drivers know well through the extensive winter testing that takes place at the circuit year-by-year.

The circuit is most famous in terms of motorsport for the infamous clash between Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher in the 1997 Formula One World Championship Finale - which the Canadian would go on to take his maiden and only Drivers Championship crown.

FIA Formula 2 and the GP3 Series will take place in this unique standalone event - where the drivers will experience previously unknown conditions with much different track and air temperatures compared to what they experienced in winter testing.

The short and abrasive nature of the track will make tyre management a key factor in both races - which can prove critical in the championship with it hosting the penultimate round of the series.

Qualifying

Race One

Race Two

Red Bull Ring

2019 Austrian Grand Prix

30 June, 2019

Qualifying

Race One

Race Two

Azerbaijan

2019 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

28 April, 2019

Qualifying

Race One

Race Two

Bahrain

2019 Bahrain Grand Prix

31 March, 2019

Located at Sakhir, 30 km south-west of the island's capital, Manama, the
Hermann Tilke designed circuit contains no less than five track layouts
within one complex.

The original 5.412 km Grand Prix circuit was designed with the spectator
in mind, with 50,000 grandstand seats, all providing excellent views.
Those spectators (a total of 100,000 over a race weekend) get to see the
cars heading into the external desert area, before coming back into the
oasis-styled infield.

The track lends itself to a host of overtaking opportunities, due to the long main straight and the possibility for drivers to fight back through turns 1-4, lending to some exciting racing. Most famously the titantic duel between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in 2014.

FIA F2 will hit the track during the day time, rather than the night time schedule for Formula 1. This will mean the drivers will need to manage their tyres in the sweltering heat of the desert, whilst duelling for victory in the first race of the new 2018 FIA F2 Car.

Qualifying

Race One

Race Two

FP1

FP2

FP3

Qualifying

Race

Yas Marina

Yas Marina

Qualifying

Race One

Race Two

FP1

FP2

FP3

Qualifying

Race

The Team

Williams is one of the world’s leading Formula 1 teams. It exists purely to race in the top echelon of motor racing.

Williams has been winning grands prix for more than three decades. The Williams name has been synonymous with top-level motorsport since the 1960s.

After running teams on the sport’s nursery slopes, team patron Frank Williams founded Frank Williams Racing Cars in 1966 and entered F1 in 1969 with his friend Piers Courage behind the wheel. Frank quickly earned a reputation as one of the industry's more determined individuals and, after selling his controlling interest in his original team, he established Williams Grand Prix Engineering with British engineer Patrick Head in 1977.

They built their first car, the FW06, the following year and the team immediately went from strength-to-strength.

Williams has since won 16 FIA Formula One World Championship titles, nine for constructors and seven for drivers, and is the third most successful team on the grid.

Roll of Honour

Williams has won 16 FIA Formula One World Championships. The team have won nine Constructor's championships, which were in partnership with Cosworth, Honda and Renault, as well as taking seven Driver's Championship titles. Champions include Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve.

The team has scored 114 victories, 308 podiums and 128 pole positions.

The team’s endeavours have earned Frank Williams a knighthood, as well as the French equivalent, the Légion d’honneur.

The company has two Queen’s Awards for Export Achievement and it’s recognised as one of the most enduring and successful organisations in sport.

Over the years Williams has nurtured many great talents, both in the cockpit and in the design office.

The team gave Ayrton Senna his first F1 test in 1983; it was with Williams that Nigel Mansell scored his first grand prix win, in 1985, and his only world title in 1992, and it was with Williams that Damon Hill took all but one of his 22 race victories and the ’96 world title. The list could go on.

George is competing in his second year with the team, after making his debut in 2019 with a strong Rookie season in Formula One.